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Castle Ring
Derbyshire, England ยท Atlas EN2973
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2973 (2973)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Harthill
- National Grid reference
- SK 22064 62827
- Latitude
- 53.16210
- Longitude
- -1.67146
- Altitude
- 242 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1782); Other (1949); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (1999); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008005
- HER
- Derbyshire 6717
- National record
- record SK 26 SW 4; monument 311357
- Wikidata
- Q31113031
Sources
References
- Hodges, R. 1980. Excavations at Camp Green, Hathersage (1976-7) - a Norman ringwork. Derbyshire Archaeol J. Vol. 100, 25-34
- Preston, F. L. 1954. The Hill-Forts of the Peak, Derbyshire Archaeol J. Vol. 74, 1-31
- Rooke, H. 1782. An account of some druidical remains on Stanton and Hustle Moor in the Peak, Derbyshire Archaeologia. Vol 6. 110-1